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Jack Dorsey is a world-class fool. Is this the sort of brain rot you get from being a billionaire surrounded by yes men? Or was he always somebody who seemed, as my grandfather would put it, like he was kicked in the head by a butterfly? https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana
And here's a nice piece from @davidgerard taking a more detailed look at Dorsey's nonsense. An especially good bit: "There is not a single mention in that Dorsey interview of what the real-world market of people who want to socially interact might want from a site that exists for social interaction. There are only Dorsey’s hypothetical ideas for a perfectly spherical social network in a vacuum."
@williampietri I mostly knew him from Square (when I worked there, before he caught his case of the bitcoins). Although it is hard to say for sure I wasn't missing something even then, it seemed better. For one thing I had a lot of respect for most of the executives he hired and he seemed to stay out of the way and let them do their jobs (as far as I could tell anyway).
@soaproot Yeah, when I worked at Twitter, I thought he was strong on talk-to-the-troops discussions, so I was first inclined to take him favorably. But his stay-out-of-the-way strategy was less effective at Twitter; as part-time CEO he had 20-odd direct reports and it seemed like chaos at that level. And it came to seem like, as here, he never really had a strategy for Twitter, just vague platitudes.
@williampietri As with many such discussions, the real question is not what this says about Jack Dorsey but what it says about us. Why are we still talking about him? Whether he was always mediocre and only gained prominence for strange reasons, or whether he was once great but fell, it would appear that we can't take our eyes off him. Perhaps because we need a hero or a villain (or better yet, both in the same person)?